On 2021-10-18 20:33:48, Mike Ray wrote:
The length of the intro annoys me. TTS, followed by ad for AHH, followed
by horrible and raucous music.
There is a much softer version of the music which IMHO should be used.
TL;DR http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3454
Re: Hosts uploading intro and outro
From a show processing point of view, we have never been able to
automate the posting process due to the fact that some people do and
some people don't add the intro and outro. Even if they are flagged
correctly in the upload form I sometimes forget and end up having to
reprocess files because they have two intros or none.
For this reason I would suggest that hosts do not add the intro or outro.
Re: Non musical feed
While it's possible to do, I am *not* in favour of having a new feed
without music. We accept any audio format, "FLAC is best, we accept the
rest". That needs to stay. From a practical point of view a raw feed
would not be useful as the audio format and encoding would change from
day to day. We deal with that through our conversion scripts so you
don't have to.
We already have different feeds for the Internet Archive, and the HPR
website AnHonestHost.com. Adding another feed would just complicate
matters and will increase processing time considerably.
But....
I think we can simplify all into one.
If we take a look at the possible makeup of a show we have 7 possible
sections. See.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/
1. Show Synopsis
This is the text to speech. I was in favour of it but everyone hates it.
It should go.
2. Thanking our Hosting provider
IA don't know we do this, and Josh never asked us to do this. In
speaking with him, unfortunately the mentions don't convert to clients.
So with his permission, I'd like to move that to the start of the
community news so that it's handled as a personal thank you from the
Janitors.
3. HPR Introduction Music
There are a lot of themes available, all long
http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/
I do believe we need to add a theme to maintain the "HPR Brand",
otherwise we risk been considered an amalgamation feed.
There is no need for it to be as long or as *LOUD* as it is
4. The Show
Left in obviously
5. HPR Outro Music
Again we can cover this information on the community news, and in the
metadata of the show.
So we can drop it entirely
6. Epilogue
Sorry Pokey they need to go.
7. Promos
We never did any but if there are, we can do them as part of the
community news as well.
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So in summary, I'd suggest dropping everything but a very short intro
and move the rest to the community news.
As a proof of concept I just posted a show (we are very low on shows at
the moment - hint hint) and I used the first six seconds of
intro-ak-Maestraccio-cc-by-4.0.mp3 as the entire branding.
The script to process reduced in size by 50%, as did the time to process
the files. I also suspect that automation of normalisation will be
easier as well.
So your feedback is appreciated
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3454
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Regards,
Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
http://kenfallon.com
http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30
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